David Dietrich's Business Technology Blog » Samba http://www.daviddietrich.com Business Technology Tips Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:58:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Samba – Stop homes from showing in shares http://www.daviddietrich.com/2010/01/26/samba-stop-homes-from-showing-in-shares/ http://www.daviddietrich.com/2010/01/26/samba-stop-homes-from-showing-in-shares/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:37:24 +0000 David Dietrich http://www.daviddietrich.com/?p=270 When using Samba on Linux, there are times that you want to allow user to have a private user directory, but do not want the “homes” directory share to show up. This is relatively simple.

Edit your /etc/samba/smb.conf file with your favorite Linux editor.
Look for the section [homes] and find the line
browseable =

set this line to browseable = no

Restart Samba (>service smb restart) and your users should now see their personal directory without seeing the homes share.

If you do not have a [homes] section, here is an example on for you –>

[homes]
        hide dot files = no
        comment = Home Directories
        writeable = yes
        delete readonly = yes
        valid users = %S
        browseable = no

]]> http://www.daviddietrich.com/2010/01/26/samba-stop-homes-from-showing-in-shares/feed/ 0